Mom locked up, drugged and tortured teenaged daughter for months to keep her from her father

The mother of a 15-year-old girl from a well-to-do family held her prisoner for the past six months in their Andheri home and drugged her continually to physically torture her — a task joined in by the mother’s live-in boyfriend, all to keep her from seeing her father.

During this time, she wouldn’t feed her for days or let her go to school. In fact, in a bid to sever all her links to the outside world, she cancelled her school admission and hacked her online profiles to smirch her image before her friends, so she would have nobody to go to if she wanted to speak out.

The hair-raising incident came to light after the girl managed to run away to her father and reveal her ordeal, following which an FIR was lodged at Amboli police station.

According to the police, the teenager, Misha, is the daughter of smalltime film actor Abhishek Mishra and his wife Shalini Kelkar (all the names have been changed to protect privacy).

“Abhishek, who has acted in a handful of popular films, has been living apart from his wife for the last seven years. He is Shalini’s third husband and currently she remains married to him,” a police official said.

Shalini had tried her luck at film direction but was unsuccessful and has been staying at home for some time now, he said, adding that she is in a live-in relationship with one Amit Kumar (name changed), who has also been accused of torturing her daughter.

“They live in Shastri Nagar in Andheri West, along with Sahlini's son from the previous marriage,” the police official said.

At the time he moved out of their matrimonial home, Abhishek left Misha with Shalini because she was too young to be apart from her. He told the police he used to meet her often and pay her expenses too. He didn’t think leaving his child with her mother would turn out to be a grave mistake.

“In the past seven years, Shalini has been torturing her daughter in a number of ways and has been blatantly lying about her father to create a rift between them,” the official said.

For the last one year, she restricted Misha’s movements and confined her illegally. She locked her up in one of the bedrooms for about six months. During this time she was not allowed to attend school, an institute in Vile Parle (West). She cancelled her admission, and Misha was not even permitted to appear for her Std IX final examination, the police said.

All this while, the mother drugged Misha continually so she would not be able to resist her nefarious designs. “The victim was left dizzy, in a state of trance. She was sleeping for about 20-22 hours a day. During this period, she was constantly assaulted physically by her mother and her live-in boyfriend, the police said.

For about two-three days during this time, Shalini did not provide any food to Misha. She hacked into her social networking accounts with the intention of maligning her, and contacted Misha’s friends to defame her so they would keep away from her.

On May 29, around 10.30pm, Shalini forced Misha to leave the house, and she went straight to her father’s place, where she has since been staying. The teenager was reportedly under depression. “Shalini’s cruel actions, the physical and mental harm she caused Misha, has led her to suffer from depression and anxiety,” another police official said.

Cops revealed that Shalini is neither afraid nor ashamed of her actions, as she comes from a family with political clout. “Shalini has got the backing of her mother, a former member of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), who later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Shalini believes that nobody can touch her, not even her actor-husband,” a police official said.

Misha, having regained her sensibility, now wants to initiate strict criminal proceedings against her mother for the torture she was subject to.

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